Word: mantels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artistic disputes with the dealers, who have their own ideas of what a painting by the country's best-known "primitive" should look like. When Grandma paints a picture that seems not quite in character, her dealers sadly send it back. One such reject hanging over her mantel shows a sunset above a Western canyon, with a log cabin in the foreground. "What one likes," says Grandma philosophically, "another don't." Another of her favorite rejects is a storm scene, with black clouds lowering in a pink sky. "Dr. Kallir [one of her dealers] wants me to change...
Pennsylvania's coach, Rusty Callow, calls them the second best crew he has ever seen. Reading from stern to bow: SAM MANTEL, cox; BILL CURWEN, stroke; PAUL KNAPLUND (captain), 7; FRANK STRONG, 6; JUD GALE, 5; DICK EMMET, 4; TED REYNOLDS, 3; DON FELT, 2; MIKE SCULLY...
Harvard Varsity: stroke, Curwen; 7, Knaplund; 6, Strong; 5, Taggart; 4, Emmet; 3, Reynolds; 2, Felt; bow, Scully; cox, Mantel...
Thursday afternoon the Crimson posed on the Newell Boat House float with coxswain Sam Mantel clutching the gold-encrusted Compton Cup which it defends today. Whether posing with this trophy before the race is symptomatic of sublime confidence or resignation to defeat is a matter for speculation...
...Curwen and coxswain Mantel, the stern of the favored Crimson shell will be weighted down with veterans. Captain Paul Knaplund, Frank Strong, and Dick Emmet are all returnees from the championship 1947 boat, and Bolles is counting heavily on their performance this afternoon. Bowman Mike Scully is also a time-tested oar, but it will be the first performance in the major leagues for Don Felt and Ted Reynolds, two and three oars, respectively...